I have a WordPress site hosted on a shared cPanel Linux server at GoDaddy. cPanel emails are used to send confirmation notices to users after an event or transaction (e.g., registration or purchase). cPanel email is also used when cron jobs trigger notices. I am having deliverability issues with cPanel emails. Outlook.com (Hotmail) blocks GoDaddy cPanel emails. Gmail delivers cPanel emails to the spam folder. GoDaddy recommends switching to virtual private server hosting to improve email deliverability. I presume I could also use a transactional email service provider to send notices when an event, transaction, or cron job triggers them. Questions: 1. Which of the two options is more potent in improving email deliverability? … switch hosting to virtual private server or use transactional email service provider. 2. Would using both of the options bring added benefits or just be overkill?
You could fix your email issues using Transaction ESP, like SendGrid.
Install this plugin in WordPress https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/
Which switches all emails to use SMTP and you set it up with your ESP's SMTP credentials.
I do this a lot with sites on cloud instances and it works very well.
On top of that, using an ESP like SendGrid you can actually see statistics of who is getting the email, bouncing, opening, etc... Great stuff, especially for a online business.
Answered 8 years ago
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